covebeach

My son's pediatrician ran the blood test, which came back negative. The pediatrician said he was fine. But because my son was still having symptoms, we eliminated all gluten. His symptoms instantly disappeared. Then he saw an endocrinologist, who diagnosed him with celiac (he also had a Vitamin D deficiency) She said the Ig test can give a false negative...

Both my teens have extremely low Vitamin D. The orthopedist and endocrinologist put them on 50,000 iu weekly for 6-8 weeks with follow up of 1000 iu per day. That helped somewhat, but because of the absorption issues associated with celiac they still need extra calcium and Vitamin D supplements. They discovered the deficiencies after a series of stress...